Sagan and his associates assembled 116 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, thunder and animals ( including the songs of birds and whales ).

Sagan recalled taking his first trips to the public library alone, at the age of five, when his mother got him a library card.

Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan consider the latter work the first science fiction story.

Drake co-designed the Pioneer plaque with Carl Sagan in 1972, the first physical message sent into space.

The Introduction was removed after the first edition, as it was copyrighted by Sagan, rather than by Hawking or the publisher, and the publisher did not have the right to reprint it in perpetuity.

Among the first to argue that members of sexual minorities can constitute cultural minorities as well as being just individuals were Adolf Brand, Magnus Hirschfeld and Leontine Sagan in Germany.

Many of the world's leading astronomers have appeared on the show through the years, including Harlow Shapley ( the first to measure the size of the Milky Way galaxy ), Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Samuel Tolansky, Harold Spencer Jones, Martin Ryle, Carlos Frenk, and Bart Bok.

In 1966, when Däniken was writing his first book, scientists Carl Sagan and I. S. Shklovskii, wrote about the possibility of paleocontact and extraterrestrial visitation claims in one chapter of their book Intelligent Life in the Universe, giving some scientific legitimacy to the idea.

The term scientific skepticism appears to have originated in the work of Carl Sagan, first in Contact ( p. 306 ), and then in Billions and Billions ( p. 135 ).

* Contact ( novel ), a novel by Carl Sagan describing the first contact of humanity with an extraterrestrial civilisation

Carl Sagan has noted that the first reported association of the Dogon with the knowledge of Sirius as a binary star was in the 1940s, giving the Dogon ample opportunity to gain cosmological knowledge about Sirius and the solar system from more scientifically advanced, terrestrial societies whom they had come in contact with.

In the Carl Sagan novel, Contact, the protagonist, Eleanor Arroway, is reading the A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, specifically the scene where Hank first approaches Camelot, when she finds out about her father's death.

** Revised and extended English translation of this book, coauthored with Carl Sagan, was first published in 1966, under the name Intelligent Life in the Universe, one of the latest reissues was published in 1998 by Emerson-Adams Press ( ISBN 1-892803-02-X )

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a book by astrophysicist Carl Sagan, which was first published in 1995.

Bhadase Sagan Maraj, the first leader of the party in the Legislative Council, became ill, bedridden and addicted to pethidine.

Born Bhadase Sagan Maraj in the tiny village of Caroni, the young Hindu's first ambition was to take his family out of the poverty, deprivation and degradation that had been their lot ever since his father stepped off an indentured labourers ' boat.

* Princess Yevdokiya Borisovna Yusupova May 5 ( NS: May 16 ) 1743, Moscow-July 19 ( NS: July 8 ) 1780, Saint Petersburg ), married on March 6, 1774, Mitava ( Mittau ) ( divorced in 1777 or 1778 ), as his second wife, to Peter von Biron, the last Duke von Kurland ( 1769 – 1795 ) and the first Duke von Sagan ( 1786 – 1795 ) ( February 15, 1724, Mitava ( Mittau )-January 13, 1800, Schloss Gellenau ), without offspring

31 ; Talleyrand dead ; wed Anna Gould ; Duke Was known as Prince of Sagan at time of courtship in first of century.

Marie Pierre Camille Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Sagan and fifth Duke of Talleyrand, was a principal in one of the international marriage of the first decade of this century.

During his time as an honors program undergraduate, Sagan worked in the laboratory of the geneticist H. J. Muller and wrote a thesis on the origins of life with physical chemist H. C. Urey.

Sagan was enthusiastic about the idea of sending a message with the Pioneer spacecraft.

His message mentioned his recent trip on the Space Shuttle and was one of 33 such by notable individuals including Caesar Chavez, Coretta Scott King, Carl Sagan, Jesse Jackson and Peter Ueberroth.

Inscribed into the plaque was an information graphic intended as a kind of interstellar message in a bottle, designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake.

The best-known CETI experiment was the 1974 Arecibo message composed by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan.

Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.

She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the third wife of the late Carl Sagan.

Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series COSMOS and a producer for the motion picture CONTACT.

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York ,.

His father, Sam Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Russia.

Both Sagan and his sister agree that their father was not especially religious, but that their mother " definitely believed in God, and was active in the temple ... and served only Kosher meat ".

Sagan recalls that one of his best experiences was when he was four or five years old, his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Sagan, however, was generally unaware of the details of the ongoing war.

From 1960 to 1962 Sagan was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1972 to 1981, Sagan was the Associate Director of the Center for Radio Physics and Space Research at Cornell.

Sagan was associated with the U. S. space program from its inception.

Sagan taught a course on critical thinking at Cornell University until he died in 1996 from pneumonia, a few months after finding that he was in remission of myelodysplastic syndrome.

Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

As an adult, Sagan and his colleagues created similar time capsules, but ones that would be sent out into the galaxy.

He debated the astronomer Carl Sagan on ABC's Nightline, Sagan arguing that the smoke might loft into the upper atmosphere and lead to massive agricultural failures.

Sagan imagined seeding the atmosphere of Venus with algae, which would convert water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide into organic compounds.

It included an Introduction by Carl Sagan that tells the following story: Sagan was in London for a scientific conference in 1974, and between sessions he wandered into a different room, where a larger meeting was taking place.

This book has been translated in English as A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, with A Theory of Meaning by Jakob von Uexküll Translated by Joseph D. O ' Neil Introduction by Dorion Sagan ( UMinn Press, 2011 ).

" SF Crowsnest hailed Sagan as " an adrenaline shot straight into the heart of science fiction ," while SF Site called the novel " elegant SF, dark and haunting, with characters who linger in memory long after the last page is turned.

Scientist Carl Sagan read the books as a young boy, and they continued to affect his imagination into his adult years ; he remembered Barsoom as a " world of ruined cities, planet girding canals, immense pumping stations — a feudal technological society ".